October Lesson Plan

Students make a monthly budget pie chart and bar chart, which will allow them to understand how to track their spending and calculate their budget.

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Objective: 1. break down monthly budget into categories (housing, food, transportation, and bills)

2. learn how to use the dollar amounts in each category to plot a pie chart

Common Core Standards:

1. Able to identify important amounts in a practical situation and map their relationships in fractions.

2. Able to use tools such as diagrams, graphs and charts to demonstrate relationships of a set of numbers.

3. Students can analyze those relationships mathematically to draw conclusions.

What: 1. define what a monthly budget constitute of

2. how to use numbers and percentages to calculate pie chart

Why: What does it mean to have large categories to track spending

How: 1. Assuming a monthly budget spending of $1,500 on the worksheet

2. Practice using different amounts to come up to the budget total

3. Convert these amounts in each category into percentages

4. Draw a pie chart that consists of all categories